[Coco] curses! Sucess!

[Gene Heskett]

On Monday 17 August 2009, John W. Linville wrote:
>On Sun, Aug 16, 2009 at 08:11:30PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
>> On Sunday 16 August 2009, John W. Linville wrote:
>> >On Sun, Aug 16, 2009 at 02:15:37PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
>> >> On Sunday 16 August 2009, James Dessart wrote:
>> >> >On Sun, Aug 16, 2009 at 12:31 PM, Gene
>> >> > Heskett<gene.heskett at verizon.net>
>> >>
>> >> wrote:
>> >> >> We have one, and its the only editor I use on the coco.  Its made
>> >> >> from the tsedit disks by a patch that I think (I could be wrong) was
>> >> >> done by Eddie Kuhns.  Beware that with modern nitros9, it will have
>> >> >> to be renamed because of the usage of 'vi' as a device descriptor
>> >> >> name, an unfortunate choice IMNSHO. Gives some crazy error messages.
>> >> >> :(
>> >> >
>> >> >Maybe it could be named 'vic,' "vi for coco," or "vic-200" since the
>> >> >CoCo is obviously much better than a vic-20.
>> >>
>> >> Unforch, there is only a 2 char limit for the name.  I may even have
>> >> called it ed since I don't have one of those original beasts installed.
>> >
>> >Use the source, Gene!  Change the name in CVS!
>> >
>> >John
>>
>> I have the cvs checkout here, but where in the tree is it?  locate vi
>> |grep nitros9 isn't getting any hits on that.
>>
>> Thanks John.
>
>nitros9/level2/modules/vi.asm
>
>The top of the file says "VI - VRN (VIRQ/RAM/Nil driver) device descriptor"
>
>Is there a "vn" descriptor?  Maybe that is a good alternative?
>Or "vq"?  Or...?
>
>John

I didn't really want to putz with that, John, as I've NDI what else would be 
broken.  I was referring to the internal and external renaming of the patched 
tsedit called 'vi', into what I think is now 'ed' on  my machine.  Looking at 
it with dEd, there was only room for those 2 chars.  _If_ we had the src's, 
then of course we could name it anything that tickled our fancy. :)  In 
retrospect, perhaps 've' or even 'te' would have been a better name, and its 
not that hard to change it.

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